All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I am not an African. I am an American.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.